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touché! Montaigne, Pascal and La Rochefoucauld inquired in a dream of mine, "What do you know?" When I with a smile replied, "Je ne sais quoi," Pascal merely frowned while Montaigne cried out, "Ha!" "So close to the mark of a motto of mine - 'Que sais-je', eh monsieur? - that is my little line!" I meant no offense," said I, "oh contrare," but Pascal interrupted and asked with a stare, "Your answer was clever enough on your part - but did it come first from your head or your heart?" no reply could I make, though at length I awoke remembering the words which La Rochefoucauld spoke. "He's learned to put vanity out of his way, and as a result he has nothing to say!"
from: At the Water’s Edge |